 |
Daily Real Estate News | May 30, 2007
Google Adds Street-Level Views and Services
Google is introducing street-level map views of U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver, and Miami. Other metropolitan areas will follow, the company says.
Through a Web browser, users of Google Maps can navigate around a city, virtually walking the streets, checking out restaurants, landmarks, and homes.
Google also announced Mapplets, which can display a variety of information about a small area, including home-for-sale listings and crime data. The tool also can be used to measure distance between objects.
Other companies have experimented with similar services, including Amazon’s A9.com, which dropped its BlockView mapping venture when its CEO joined Google as vice president of engineering.
Source: Reuters News, Eric Auchard (05/29/07)
Browse all of today's news
| |
|
RSS Feed